Restaurant review: Local 186

Local 186 is Provincetown’s best restaurant to grab a burger. The new restaurant has now been open for a few months and the staff has firmly hit their stride, providing attentive service in a great setting regardless of where you choose to eat on their street side patio, large front deck or indoors.

Local 186 is open for lunch and dinner 7-days a week. If there is a wait for a table, check out their bar on the first floor and grab a drink. We were lucky on our most recent visit and snagged a table on the patio when we walked up to have dinner on the 4th of July. We were hungry so we started with the restaurant’s Grilled Caesar Salad for $12 and two sides, Fried Artichoke Hearts and Fried Avocado – each $7. The menu consists of ten house burgers including The Old-Fashioned which has bacon and cheddar; The Big-D, a Kobe beef burger with sauteed onions and blue cheese; and The Surf & Turf also with Kobe beef as well as a lump of butter poached lobster. However, if none of the options appeal you are encouraged to make your own burger from a large selection of traditional and not so traditional ingredients.

For our dinner we opted for The Frenchie an 80z burger topped with onions, smoked gruyere and au jus for dipping $15 and The El Guapo which comes with fried avocado and chipotle aioli $15.

If you are not a burger lover this is definitely not the place for you, but if the idea of having a grilled burger for lunch or dinner appeals, give Local 186 a try. I also recommend the house beer which is a light lager style brew made especially for the restaurant.

3 responses to “Restaurant review: Local 186”

Everything was delicious and prepared with care, from the beef burgers to the home-made millet and sweet potato burger. Thw sides are inventive and yummy. And the house-cut french fries, to die for. Service…we…. friendly, but ill-informed. They’ll work the kinks out.
Everything Linus, aboves, assumes, without even trying the place, is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Boring. Looks like another ‘wanna-be-posh-NYC-let’s-sell-a-bland-burger-with-greasy-fries-and-charge-$19-for-it’. Not the right thing for Provincetown. And of course, probably one thing (if even that) on the menu for vegetarians like a boring over processed and high sodium veggie burger with goat cheese. Yawn.

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